Literary Articles

River of Smoke (2011), the second book of the Ibis trilogy, takes the readers to China between October 1838 and July 1839. As Sea of Poppies...

The first book of Amitav Ghosh’s the Ibis trilogy, Sea of Poppies (2008); which is divided into three parts: Land, River, and Sea; is hard t...

The title ‘The Shadow Lines’ is evocative of one of the major concerns of the novel: that of the creation of nations with boundaries that...

  The Shadow Lines (1988) can be viewed at one level as a story of a Bengali family through which  Amitav Ghosh presents, analyses and p...

An important theme of the novel The Shadow Lines is the concept of nationalism that is gaining ground in today’s world. The author ha...

The Shadow Lines uses the symbolism of maps and in particular borders throughout its  novel to identify and explore a key postcolonia...